This Time and Every Time It"s Personal

In case you hadn't noticed this blog is my entirely personal and eclectic view of the world. Organisations I belong to disown me and every word of this thing - long before the cock crows. I blog what I want and I blogit when when I want. I rarely delete comments and will generally carry corrections and observations prominently on request. This time, and every time ... it's personal.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Liberals however talk of freedom, individuality, choice and tolerance. People are not numbers, happiness cannot be measured, humans cannot be made happier, better, more moral beings. It is only through them and through their own society that people can make themselves happy, make themselves better and choose their own beliefs. To a liberal there is no set way of life, no right or wrong way, there is only one way of life and that way is your own, you own your own life, and you should choose how to live it.

What John is saying here is that Lib Dems should be all things to all people and that that's the right way. This seems to me to be a devoidance of politics. The Liberal Democrats are an a-political party. Official! Aiming for feelgood quackery. With relentless misery as the means of production.

2 comments:

No, this is not "official", it is one person's view. And if you read the whole article in context, it is part of a debate against the right-wing "economic liberal" infiltrators into the Liberal Democrats who are prominent in the blogosphere (less so actually doing the hard work in the party) which says that there is more to liberalism than economic freedom, freedom from taxation is not the only freedom that exists - something I would have thought a Labour Party supporter would agree with.